December 2008 | Volume 4 | PDF

Hugo Matias, Editor Email hmatias@repsolypf.com

President's Message

Technology Highlights

Geosequestration of CO2

Exploration Country Focus

Netherlands

Conferences and Seminars

Workshop - Varna

APPEX London

AAPG-ER News

People

Visiting Geoscientists

Student Chapters

ILP Task Forces

President Tours Europe

AAPG-ER Structure

Calendar of Events (PDF)

ER News

2009 AAPG Honours and Awards

Stuart Harker
European Representative in the AAPG Advisory Council

The annual Honours and Awards meeting was held 22 August ahead of the AAPG Leadership Days Conference in Tulsa. This year the European Region had a total of 13 nominations for 8 of the 11 categories available and this was the most successful year ever for the European region with six successful awardees

Honorary Member Award:

Peter A. Ziegler

Distinguished Service Award:

Mike J. Lakin

Grover E. Murray Memorial Distinguished Educator Award:

Finn Surlyk

Special Award:

Alexei E. Kontorovich and Akif Ali Narimanov

Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award:

Joe Cartwright, Mads Huuse and Andrew Aplin.

Welcome to the New Vice-President:

Marek Hoffman

Ground water hydrologist (University of Warsaw) and petroleum geologist with 38 years of experience.

Started his career as a field geologist in various environmental (tracer technique) applications in Poland and abroad (Kuwait).

In 1990 joined Ministry of Environment where he organized Bureau of Geological Concessions, the first modern licensing institution for minerals in Poland. Special attention was directed on oil and gas as well as coalbed methane exploration and production.

In 1994 joined Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG SA) to serve as director of different oil and gas exploration units in Poland and abroad (Pakistan, India). Supervised programming, planning as well as execution of Company’s exploration activities.

In 2006-7 he was a member of negotiating team formed to acquire development assets at Norwegian Continental Shelf (Skarv). Then he took part in organization of subsidiary company in Norway and starting October 2007 works as E&P Deputy Manager in PGNiG Norway AS in Stavanger.

New HOD Secretary - Editor (2008 / 2009):

Sigrunn Johnsen

Sigrunn Johnsen, a representative of the European Region in the AAPG House of Delegates, has been elected as Secretary/Editor for the period 2008-9. She is the first non North-American to have this position. The European Region is happy to be able to contribute to the internationalisation of AAPG in this manner.

Sigrunn, who is an employee of RWE Dea Norway, is presently working in RWE Dea’s headquarters in Hamburg, Germany in Field Development, North Africa.

Energy and Minerals Division in Europe

Call for Volunteers

AAPG is looking for volunteers to help organize EMD meetings and activities in Europe. With the increasing dependence on Russian gas for Europe, and resulting political-economic difficulties, the time is ripe for Europe to deepen its portolio of energy resources. EMD is the perfect mechanism for collectively learning from one another and key leaders in alternative energy on the potential and evolving technologies for creating viable non-petroleum energy resources. Shale gas, coal gas, tight gas sands and other forms of energy like geothermal, oil shales and nuclear energy are already a major part of Europe’s energy mix and will only become more important in the future. If you are interested in helping organize some 2009 meetings and publications, please contact the EMD European Region Councilor, John Dolson .